Auguste Denis-Brunaud

Auguste Denis-Brunaud (1903-1985) is a artist-painter of the Breton school.

Installed with Épiniac, a village close to Fraud-of-Brittany, this painter who asserts himself like a painter-peasant illustrates the country and maritime life Close-Chicken at the XXe century, faithful to his Breton fatherland and the rural world of before the war of 1914-1918. Interiors of thatched cottages gallèses, bisquines cancalaises, agricultural work, plowmen, bouquets pastoral essaiment his work, primarily made up of oil-base paints.

In the same way, by fidelity with the country life of its childhood in country gallo, it uses for support the hard hessian of the potato bags. Its rustic and direct manner falls under the great Flemish tradition, in a style close to its contemporary Constant Permeke in addition to-Quiévrain, using of a heavy pasting to the knife and the brush, matter on which it returns with glacis refined to the Flemish medium to insert colors and ombrer objects.

If its light is that of the Flemish Masters, a light fair and favourable with lights-obsurs, its talent is before all that of a synthetic painter, far from that of a sourcilleux draftsman. Its pleasure is that of the gesture, of the trace of alive, the beautiful leg. In short, if its glance confers on its fabrics an ethnological interest, it is firstly that of in love with the matter and light, a painter of sensitive altogether.

Parallel to its work of artist, so much exposed in France, Italy, Belgium and U.S.A, the painter transmit his art near a group of pupils, in particular the painter Liliane de Zorzi of Saint-Pierre-with-Plesguen or the bedeist Jean-François Miniac.

This Breton of heart - immense a Gwenn ha Of the trônait in its workshop - rests today in Épiniac, without descent. His wife did not survive her disappearance a long time.

From now on, the name of a street of Cancale commemorates its work.

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